Vincent Aleven
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Vincent Aleven is a professor of human-computer interaction and director of the undergraduate program at Carnegie Mellon University's Human–Computer Interaction Institute.[1][2]
Dr. Vincent Aleven | |
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Fields | Cognitive psychology, human–computer interaction |
Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University |
In 1998, he co-founded Carnegie Learning, Inc., a Pittsburgh-based company that markets Cognitive Tutor math courses that include intelligent tutoring software.[3] Aleven is also a co-founder of Mathtutor,[4] a free website for middle-school math intelligent tutoring systems.
At Carnegie Mellon University, Aleven's research focuses on intelligent tutoring systems and educational games. His group developed Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools (CTAT[5]) which allows to create intelligent tutoring systems without programming. Aleven's group has also been awarded several best paper awards, including a best paper award at EDM2013,[6] a best student paper award at AIED2009,[7] and the cognition and student learning prize at the Cognitive Science conference 2008.[8] Aleven has mentored many prestigious postdocs and PhD students, including Amy Ogan, Ryan S. Baker, Matthew Easterday, Martina Rau, and Ido Roll.
Aleven was named a top author in Computer Education by Microsoft.[9]